Definition of synchronic in English:

adjective

Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.

From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.

One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.

Derivatives

synchronically

Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.

Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.

Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.